East Pennyroyal News

There were 10 American Indian or Alaska Native students enrolled in Pulaski County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 44.4% decrease from the 18 American Indian or Alaska Native students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Pulaski County welcomed a total of 11,212 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian or Alaska Native students comprised 0.1% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Pulaski County, two schools recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian or Alaska Native students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of two students.

Despite escaping some of the pandemic's educational disruptions, Kentucky's achievement gaps have remained an issue since 2019. In the eighth-grade reading assessments, for example, Hispanic students scored eight points lower than their white peers, and the gap reached 15 points in math. Black students fared even worse, falling more than 20 points behind and facing a failure rate nearly double that of their white counterparts.

School name	% of American Indian or Alaska Native Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Burnside Elementary School	0.2%	491
Nancy Elementary School	0.3%	358
Pulaski County High School	0.1%	1,288
Pulaski Elementary School	0.3%	591
Southern Middle School	0.1%	1,015
Northern Middle School	0.2%	904
Oak Hill Elementary School	0.2%	576
Shopville Elementary School	0.3%	383